1. Nicholas Broomfield was born on 1948 and is an English documentary film director.
12 Facts About Nick Broomfield
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Nick Broomfield is often seen in the finished film, usually holding the sound boom and wearing the Nagra tape recorder.
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Nick Broomfield is the son of photographer Maurice Broomfield and Sonja Lagusova.
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From 1959 to 1965, Nick Broomfield was educated at Sidcot School, a Quaker boarding independent school for boys, near the village of Winscombe in Somerset in south west England.
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Nick Broomfield gained higher-level education at University College Cardiff, where he studied law, and the University of Essex, where he studied political science.
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Nick Broomfield became known for this self-reflective film-making style: making films that were about the making itself as well as the ostensible subject.
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In 2006, Nick Broomfield changed his style again, adopting techniques of what he calls 'Direct Cinema': using non-actors to play themselves in dramas with a screenplay.
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Nick Broomfield completed a drama called Ghosts for Channel 4; this was inspired by the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster, when 23 Chinese immigrant cockle pickers drowned after being cut off by the tides.
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In Battle for Haditha, Nick Broomfield worked with ex-Marines and Iraqi refugees, as well as known actors.
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Nick Broomfield based his script on research with the Marines of Kilo Company who took part in the fighting on that day, the survivors of the massacre, and the six-thousand page NCIS government report.
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Nick Broomfield explains in Juvenile Liaison 2, shot fifteen years after the original, that many of the original film's participants withdrew their consent following an early screening in Blackburn library.
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In 1999, Nick Broomfield made a series of five commercials for Volkswagen.